Innocent III

January 1st, 2006 @ 1:00 am by Rich | Share This | Comments: none
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Pope from 1198-1216. Unlike Gregory VII and other earlier reform popes, who were monks, Innocent and other great popes of the later twelfth and thirteenth centuries were trained as canon lawyers, experts in church government. His most powerful weapons in exercising his spiritual power over the people of the land were excommunication and the interdict.

 
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